Space News
News Analysis | With Pentagon award, SpaceX joins the establishment
Space News - 8 Aug 2020 01:11
Six years ago, SpaceX was the upstart launch company seeking to break United Launch Alliance's monopoly on national security space launches. Now, it's part of the establishment. SpaceNews
A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turned Into a Ring Around the Milky Way
Universe Today - 8 Aug 2020 21:26
An international team of astronomers discovered some surprising when studying a debris ring around our Milky Way: the remnants of an ancient globular cluster The post A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turn...
SpaceX's toasted Crew Dragon returns home after historic NASA astronaut splashdown
SPACE.com - 8 Aug 2020 14:37
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule cruised into its home port Friday evening (Aug. 7), secured to one of the company's recovery vessels.
Download Pictures by Amateur Radio from the International Space Station
SpaceRef - 8 Aug 2020 15:25
Did you know that astronauts on the International Space Station send pictures from space to ground over amateur radio that you yourself can get at home using your computer?...
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
Universe Today - 8 Aug 2020 00:49
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph’s thorax, under the flickering lights of an operating room in a top secret government facility, with venous tendrils ...
Newly forming star has spiral arms like a tiny galaxy
Universe Today - 8 Aug 2020 21:20
Protoplanetary disks – where young stars are forming their families of planets – usually form concentric rings of gaps. But astronomers have recently spotted a surprising situation: an adolescent star surrounded by g...
Mira-type variable stars are constantly throwing the key chemicals for life out into space
Universe Today - 8 Aug 2020 20:37
We know that the carbon in your bones was formed long ago in the heart of a star. But how did that carbon actually make its way to your bones? It’s a bit of a complicated puzzle, and recent observations with the SOFIA ...
Arecibo Observatory weathers Tropical Storm Isaias to track potentially dangerous asteroid
SPACE.com - 8 Aug 2020 14:40
A famed asteroid observatory overcame a tropical storm to determine the threat level of a space rock zooming by Earth. Happily, in both cases everything worked out just fine.
'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 3 release date revealed
SPACE.com - 8 Aug 2020 14:02
CBS confirms the "Star Trek: Discovery" third season premiere date, while Season 2 of "The Mandalorian" is once again expected to air at around the same time.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft prepares for final asteroid-sampling rehearsal
SPACE.com - 8 Aug 2020 13:00
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is preparing for its final rehearsal before touching down on asteroid Bennu this fall to snag a piece of space rock.